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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Paducah, KY

July 4, 2004Carter County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2004, 11:20 AM CDT for Carter County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2004, 11:20 AM CDT (16:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2004, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carter County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 252 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 4, 3:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 4:25 AM CDT, 6 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
425 AM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100-
107>112-114-051000-
ALEXANDER IL-BALLARD KY-BOLLINGER MO-BUTLER MO-CALDWELL KY-
CALLOWAY KY-CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-CARLISLE KY-CARTER MO-CHRISTIAN KY-
CRITTENDEN KY-DAVIESS KY-EDWARDS IL-FRANKLIN IL-FULTON KY-
GALLATIN IL-GIBSON IN-GRAVES KY-HAMILTON IL-HARDIN IL-HENDERSON KY-
HICKMAN KY-HOPKINS KY-JACKSON IL-JEFFERSON IL-JOHNSON IL-
LIVINGSTON KY-LYON KY-MARSHALL KY-MASSAC IL-MCCRACKEN KY-MCLEAN KY-
MISSISSIPPI MO-MUHLENBERG KY-NEW MADRID MO-PERRY MO-PERRY IL-PIKE IN-
POPE IL-POSEY IN-PULASKI IL-RIPLEY MO-SALINE IL-SCOTT MO-SPENCER IN-
STODDARD MO-TODD KY-TRIGG KY-UNION KY-UNION IL-VANDERBURGH IN-
WABASH IL-WARRICK IN-WAYNE MO-WAYNE IL-WEBSTER KY-WHITE IL-
WILLIAMSON IL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIKESTON...POPLAR BLUFF...PERRYVILLE...
CAPE GIRARDEAU...PADUCAH...OWENSBORO...MURRAY...MAYFIELD...
MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...HENDERSON...EVANSVILLE...HERRIN...
HARRISBURG...CARMI...CARBONDALE AND CAIRO
425 AM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...ACROSS THE QUAD STATE. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
ANTICIPATED...HOWEVER ISOLATED HIGH WIND GUSTS OR HEAVY RAIN COULD
OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WHEN A
COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH. THERE IS AT LEAST A SLIGHT
RISK THAT STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE ALONG AND IN ADVANCE OF THE
FRONT.

ANOTHER CHANCE OF STORMS ENTERS THE FORECAST AGAIN LATE IN THE
WEEK...AND WILL BE PRIMARILY A HEAT OF THE DAY TYPE OF THUNDERSTORM
CHANCE FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. AS A RESULT...WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD MAINTAIN ALERT STATUS IN CASE THEIR ACTIVATION IS
REQUESTED EARLY THIS WEEK.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	29 min
Jul 4, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.